Patents by Inventor Jun Yokoyama

Jun Yokoyama has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9482632
    Abstract: An estimating unit 51 estimates the upper limit of possible temperatures in a predetermined position of ICT equipment when the quantity of intake air into the ICT equipment is appropriate, based on the result of detection by an operational status detecting unit that detects the operational status of the ICT equipment and the result of detection by an intake-air temperature sensor 62 that detects the temperature of intake air of the ICT equipment. A determining unit 52 determines that an abnormality is occurring when the result of detection by a temperature sensor 63 that detects the temperature in the predetermined position is beyond the upper limit estimated by the estimating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9377026
    Abstract: An electric device has a casing with an air-inlet and an air-outlet, a main unit disposed inside the casing, a first temperature sensor for detecting the temperature inside the casing, a second temperature sensor for detecting the temperature outside the casing, an electric fan, and a control unit. The control unit rotates the electric fan at the time of the low-temperature startup such that the temperature detected by the first temperature sensor is lower than a preset first threshold value, while the temperature detected by the second temperature sensor is higher than the temperature detected by the first temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kumiko Suzuki, Jun Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20160118804
    Abstract: An equipment power management system in accordance with the present invention has a plurality of electrical devices and a control device. The electrical devices can operate in any one of multiple operational states different from each other in power consumption of a commercial power source. The control device switches the operational state of an electrical device to that of a smaller power consumption of the commercial power source in ascending order from the electrical device of the lowest priority when a receiving power amount of the whole equipment including the plurality of electrical devices exceeds a first threshold value until the receiving power amount falls below a second threshold value which is lower than or equal to the first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160116932
    Abstract: To ensure the electricity storage amount of a power storage device in preparation for the peak period of power consumption when supplying power to a plurality of devices, a power management apparatus includes a controller that controls the plurality of devices that receive a distribution of total power supplied from the power storage device and another power supply, an acquirer that acquires the remaining electric energy of the power storage device, and a determiner that determines whether the remaining electric energy of the power storage device is not more than a first predetermined value. If the remaining electric energy of the power storage device is not more than the first predetermined value, the controller controls the plurality of devices such that the power from the other power supply is distributed to the power storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun YOKOYAMA, Hitoshi TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20160116975
    Abstract: This invention provides a server system in which a plurality of servers are divided into a plurality of groups in accordance with a physical arrangement. The server system includes at least one system power provider that distributes and provides system power to each of the plurality of groups, a battery that corresponds to each of the plurality of groups and provides stored power to at least two servers included in the group, and a controller that controls each of the servers included in one group based on power providable by the system power provider and the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Hitoshi TAKAGI, Jun YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9270114
    Abstract: An equipment power management system in accordance with the present invention has a plurality of electrical devices and a control device. The electrical devices can operate in any one of multiple operational states different from each other in power consumption of a commercial power source. The control device switches the operational state of an electrical device to that of a smaller power consumption of the commercial power source in ascending order from the electrical device of the lowest priority when a receiving power amount of the whole equipment including the plurality of electrical devices exceeds a first threshold value until the receiving power amount falls below a second threshold value which is lower than or equal to the first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20150275905
    Abstract: An electric device having a casing with an air-outlet, and a main unit disposed inside the casing, includes a first temperature sensor configured to detect the temperature inside the casing, a second temperature sensor installed in the vicinity of the air-outlet, and an electric fan configured to generate an airflow from the air-outlet toward the inside of the casing at the time of the low-temperature startup such that the temperature detected by the first temperature sensor is lower than a preset first threshold value, and the temperature detected by the second temperature sensor is higher than the temperature detected by the first temperature sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Kumiko SUZUKI, Jun Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20150203749
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide: an alkaline earth metal silicate phosphor to which Eu is added as an activator, and which has an emission peak wavelength of 600 nm or more, high luminance and excellent color rendering properties; and a method for producing the alkaline earth metal silicate phosphor. An alkaline earth metal silicate phosphor of the present invention is represented by composition formula (1) and having an emission peak wavelength of 600 nm or more and a circularity of 85% or more. Composition formula (1): (SraCabBacEud)2SieOf (in the formula, a, b, c, d, e and f satisfy 0.4<a<0.6, 0.4<b<0.6, 0.01<c<0.05, 0.01?d<0.4, 0.7?e?1.3, 3.0?f?5.0 and a+b+c+d=1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Tetsufumi Komukai, Jun Yokoyama, Masato Kakihana, Satoko Tezuka, Hideki Kato
  • Publication number: 20150122026
    Abstract: An ultrasonic measuring method for measuring an inside of a measured object by using ultrasonic waves propagating through air includes attaching a sheet having an acoustic impedance higher than the air as well as lower than the measured object to the measured object and measuring the inside of the measured object to which the sheet is attached by using a sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: JUN YOKOYAMA, HIDEYUKI TACHIKA
  • Publication number: 20140344594
    Abstract: A cluster system of mutual standby type, includes information processing devices, one of the information processing devices taking over a job of an other information processing device, when the other information processing device becomes unable to continue processing, wherein the information processing devices control the use of power so as not to exceed a power upper limit, and the one of the information processing devices sets the power upper limit smaller than a maximum power consumption of its own, when it is not necessary to take over the job of the other information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventor: Jun YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 8819459
    Abstract: A cluster system of mutual standby type forms groups each composed of a job execution system and a job standby system for taking over the job when problems occur in the job execution system, and provides information processing devices each with a job execution system and a job standby system of different groups. The information processing devices each include: an upper limit value storage unit for storing a power upper limit value, a power control unit for controlling use of power by its own information processing device so as not to exceed the power upper limit value stored, and an upper limit value setting unit for causing the upper limit value storage unit to store a power upper limit value smaller than the maximum power consumption of its own information processing device when it is not necessary to take over the job of another information processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 8790766
    Abstract: The present invention can provide a polymer film having an Ra (arithmetic average roughness) of 0.5 ?m to 2.5 ?m, an Ry (maximum height) of 3 ?m to 11 ?m, an Rz (ten-point average height) of 3 ?m to 8 ?m, and a light transmittance of 85% or higher. A preferable embodiment of the present invention can provide, at the same time, an optical diffusion function, an improved luminance, a transmittance and the like which are of a sufficient level not realized conventionally. In a still preferable embodiment, Sm (average concave-concave/convex-convex interval) of 90 ?m to 160 ?m and the average inter-local peak interval (S) is 5 ?m to 15 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignees: MGC Filsheet Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company Inc.
    Inventors: Kenji Kato, Katsushige Hayashi, Jun Yokoyama, Mitsuo Miura, Tsutomu Nara
  • Publication number: 20140159634
    Abstract: A rotation number deciding unit decides a rotation number of a cooling fan based on the result of detection by an intake air temperature sensor. A determining unit determines whether the degree of increase of intake air temperature is equal to or more than a threshold based on the result of detection by the intake air temperature sensor. When the determining unit determines the degree of increase of intake air temperature is equal to or more than the threshold, the controlling unit determines whether there is a possibility of occurrence of condensation based on the result of detection by the intake air temperature sensor and the result of detection by an intake air humidity sensor. When determining there is a possibility of occurrence of condensation, the controlling means causes the cooling fan to rotate at a rotation number lower than the rotation number decided by the rotation number deciding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: JUN YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20140159484
    Abstract: An electrical apparatus includes a main unit which consumes electrical power; a power supply unit which supplies electrical power from a commercial power source to the main unit; a secondary battery to be charged with electrical power supplied from the power supply unit; and a power source control unit. In a state where a power source of the main unit is the power supply unit, when power consumption of the main unit exceeds a first threshold, the power source control unit changes the state to another state where the power source of the main unit is the power supply unit and secondary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: JUN YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 8683235
    Abstract: An electrical apparatus includes a main unit which consumes electrical power; a power supply unit which supplies electrical power from a commercial power source to the main unit; a secondary battery to be charged with electrical power supplied from the power supply unit; and a power source control unit. In a state where a power source of the main unit is the power supply unit, when power consumption of the main unit exceeds a first threshold, the power source control unit changes the state to another state where the power source of the main unit is the power supply unit and secondary battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20140064321
    Abstract: An estimating unit 51 estimates the upper limit of possible temperatures in a predetermined position of ICT equipment when the quantity of intake air into the ICT equipment is appropriate, based on the result of detection by an operational status detecting unit that detects the operational status of the ICT equipment and the result of detection by an intake-air temperature sensor 62 that detects the temperature of intake air of the ICT equipment. A determining unit 52 determines that an abnormality is occurring when the result of detection by a temperature sensor 63 that detects the temperature in the predetermined position is beyond the upper limit estimated by the estimating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: NEC Corporation (c/o BABA International Patent Office)
    Inventor: Jun YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 8418260
    Abstract: A server system is provided in which it is possible to avoid an improper operation or malicious operation on, for example, a power switch of a server. In such a system, both a management server and multiple servers are connected to a network. Each multiple server includes: an authentication key storing portion which stores an authentication key; and a management module which compares between data inputted by operating the operation switches and the authentication key stored in the authentication key storing portion, wherein the management module sets the operation switches available if the input data and the authentication key are the same. The management module includes a function of writing the authentication key received from the management server into the authentication key storing portion. The management server includes a virtualized environment software which transmits the authentication key to each of the multiple servers via the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 8381003
    Abstract: A computer system comprises a computer that includes a plurality of CPU sockets including one or more CPU cores, a crossbar switch, and a memory controller each, and memories connected under the respective plurality of CPU sockets, the plurality of CPU sockets being connected to each other. When all the CPU cores in a CPU socket enter a power saving state and a total amount of memory use falls below a predetermined threshold, the computer relocates contents of the memory connected under the CPU socket to a memory under another CPU socket, thereby eliminating an access to the memory connected under the CPU socket and bringing a whole of the CPU socket into the power saving state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kumiko Suzuki, Jun Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20120233475
    Abstract: A cluster system of mutual standby type forms groups each composed of a job execution system and a job standby system for taking over the job when problems occur in the job execution system, and provides information processing devices each with a job execution system and a job standby system of different groups. The information processing devices each include: an upper limit value storage unit for storing a power upper limit value, a power control unit for controlling use of power by its own information processing device so as not to exceed the power upper limit value stored, and an upper limit value setting unit for causing the upper limit value storage unit to store a power upper limit value smaller than the maximum power consumption of its own information processing device when it is not necessary to take over the job of another information processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Jun YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20120219399
    Abstract: An electric device has a casing with an air-inlet and an air-outlet, a main unit disposed inside the casing, a first temperature sensor for detecting the temperature inside the casing, a second temperature sensor for detecting the temperature outside the casing, an electric fan, and a control unit. The control unit rotates the electric fan at the time of the low-temperature startup such that the temperature detected by the first temperature sensor is lower than a preset first threshold value, while the temperature detected by the second temperature sensor is higher than the temperature detected by the first temperature sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kumiko SUZUKI, Jun YOKOYAMA